The North American sylva; or A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia, : considered particularly in respect to their use in the arts, and their introduction into commerce; to which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees. Illustrated by 156 coloured copperplate engravings, by Redoute, Bessa, etc.

by: Michaux, François André, 1770-1855, author

Publication date: 1853

Topics: Botany, Trees, Botany -- North America, Trees -- North America

Publisher: [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : Robert P. Smith, Philadelphia

Collection: biodiversity; smithsonian

Digitizing sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: English; French

Volume: v.1 (1853)

3 volumes, 156 leaves of plates 28 cm

Translation of: Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique Septentrionale

"The foundation of the North American sylva, was laid by the laborious researches of the elder Michaux [that is, André Michaux, father of François André Michaux]" --Preface

Translation by Augustus L. Hillhouse, with corrections by the editor

Published together with the continuation by Thomas Nuttall: The North American sylva, or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia, not described in the work of F. Andrew Michaux ... Being the fourth[-sixth] volume of Michaux and Nuttall's North American sylva

Illustrated with hand-colored stipple engravings. "All American editions used the French copperplates."--Stafleu

Illustrators include Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Antoine Redouté, Henri-Joseph Redouté, Pancrace Bessa, Rosine-Antoinette (Bessin) Delaporte, and Adèle Riché; engravers include Marie Joseph Bessin, Renard, Georges Gabriel, J. N. Joly, Boquet, P.A. Cally, and Lse. Fse. Jacquinot

Includes bibliographical references and index

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digitized BHLDP 20160920

Addeddate: 2016-12-15 07:17:16

Associated-names: Michaux, André, 1746-1802, contributor; Hillhouse, Augustus L. (Augustus Lucas), 1791-1859, translator; Smith, J. Jay (John Jay), 1798-1881, editor, writer of supplementary textual content; Bessa, Pancrace, 1772-approximately 1835, illustrator; Redouté, Pierre Joseph, 1759-1840, illustrator; Redouté, A. (Antoine), 1756-1809, illustrator, engraver; Redouté, Henri-Joseph, 1766-1852, illustrator; Riché, A. (Adèle), 1791-1878, illustrator; Delaporte, Rosine-Antoinette, 1807-1897, illustrator; Bessin, Marie Joseph, engraver; Jacquinot, Lse. Fse. (Louise Françoise), engraver; Renard, active 19th century, engraver; Gabriel, Georges François Marie, born 1775, engraver; Joly, J. N., engraver; Boquet, 1751-1817, engraver; Cally, P. A., engraver; Smith, Robert Pearsall, 1827-1898, publisher; Continued by (work): Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859. North American sylva; Kite & Walton, printer